SOURCE: “Vestiges of Empire: Toward a Contrapuntal Reading of Borges,” in CLA Journal, Vol. XLII, No. 1, September, 1998, pp. 103–17.
In the following essay, Pennington relies on the historical and social contexts surrounding Borges's “The Ethnographer” to elucidate the text.
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